Since today Russia is celebrating Victory Day, let's see this nice compilation of the most important Russia connected photos from World War II or how Russians call it "Great Patriotic War". And we will start with this

photo above. It's probably one of the most famous Russian WW2 photographs. It shows Russian soldier Yeremenko who shouts "Attack!" just a few seconds before he would be shot down by German bullet and dies.

Russian blogger Ilya was taking photos of Moscow celebrating Victory Day today. In the West this day is called "Victory in Europe day", but celebrated day before. In post Soviet countries it's called "Victory Day" and happens on May 9th. So here what he saw. Though he

says today's Victory Day was pretty gloomy, probably because of anomalous weather - Moscow was hit by snow yesterday and it's unusually cold today - just 2-3 degrees Celcius (usually it's fine to have +15 C on this day). So here is what he saw: